Dwarves

Drakran legends claim that the dwarven people existed on Lanyir even before humans arrived. Anthropologists posit that at least two distinct populations that would today be seen as “dwarves” developed independently as offshoots of humans who survived some calamity by fleeing underground.   Some time after the Demonocracy fell, the dwarves of Drakr went through a brief period of racial nationalism, spearheaded by an archmage king who wished to resist Clergy rule. That king reached out through magic to others around Lanyir he saw as dwarves and forced a great migration that brought tens of thousands to his realm against their will. Even then, though, he could not gather the numbers he needed to achieve his dream, and a thousand years later Drakr retains its human majority.